October 1988
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THE LONG BATTLE FOR EQUAL PAY-TRUMPS OR TRUCE? TENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION OCTOBER 1988 Playwright Renee Talks for the first tii The Mervyn Thomi VIOTHERHOOi wo W om en’s Stories WAHIA PUBLI < Growing Future or M aori Artists t Writers LIBRARY AUCKLAND OLLEGE OF El REBEL OR REACTIONARY? t u r n % The Gluepot Hotel in Ponsonby will host two seasons of comedy cabaret Dare Swan during the Festival. Tickets $16 inc. Booking and GST. O C3 Tue 25th to Sat 29th October. 8pm nightly, Matinee 2pm Sat. The Auckland Comedy Festival will showcase a season by Sydney dance company Dare Swan at the Maidment Theatre in the last week of October. Dare Swan (pictured below) was founded in 1982 and comprises New Zealanders Chris Jannides and Kilda Northcott, founding members of Limbs Dance Cabaret — Week One. Company, Peta Rutter, formerly of Slick Stage, as Oct 26-29. Gluepot. well as Australian’s Kaye Freeman and Anastasi Siotasis. Red Mole join local Comedy- store star Chris Hegan, Sydney mime Ira Seidenstein, and the father of the Christchurch Fringe, River, for a three hour cabaret show, running Wednesday to Saturday in the first week of the Festival. Aucklanders will remember Red Mole from their work in the late seventies, and their appearance at the Sweetwaters Festival in 1980. The core of the group (pictured above), now based in Wellington after a decade of work in America and Europe, will return to Auckland for the Comedy Festival with newly created B O O K ^ a ^ S cabaret material. MmmoKmm Mmmmmm ■ m m H p e r iv n I 1 L f J U 1 T VJL i Presented by Expression Multi-media and the Aotea Centre in association with No Ordinary beer. ♦C*0 *N*T*E*N^T ♦ S ♦ OCTOBER ISSUE 162 1988 FEATURES 14 No Skeletons Under The Table How Renee and others see it now Renee, Sarah Calvert, Heah Lee Lee 17 Being A Mother The experiences of two women Maria McKay and Robyn Anderson 20 She For Whom The Bills Toll Judith Aitken and the MWA Alison McCulloch 25 Veiled Threats Life for women in Iran Mahnaz Afkhami interviewed by Lisa Sabbage 28 Coming Home Short Story Valerie Laura 30 Mahia Publishers Maori initiative in Hawkes Bay Pat Rosier REGULARS 2 Herspective 3 Letters and Fronting Up 6 Broadcast The Employment Equity Act 0 A Spur To Action 0 Putting Women on the Government Agenda 0 Money-go-round 0 Mop ping Up The Dregs 0 Screened Out 33 What’s New 39 The Gripes of Roth 40 Classified 34 ARTS________ _______ Off the Wall (Jane Zusters) 0 Surveying (Allie Eagle) 0 Moving On (Maureen Jaggard) 0 Bluebeard’s Egg 0 Lesbian Couples 0 Making A Way 0 Women and Love 0 Listing VEILED THREATS IN IRAN 25 BROADSHEET HERSPECTIVE BROADSHEET is published by Broadsheet Magazine Ltd, P O Box 56-147, Dominion Rd, Auckland. Registered office: 228 Dominion Rd, Auckland Office, bookshop and advertising ately, in Britain, we have been hearing up those walls, out of sight, out of mind. Phone (09) 608-535 a lot about the disintegrating family A mean-spirited Christianity accompa Editorial and art department, phone (09) 607-162 Land the dire consequence this will have nies this call for the preservation of the upon us all if we do not halt the process. I’m family. It is amazing what the “right” can BROADSHEET COLLECTIVE Sharon Alston, all for the family being encouraged, but haul out of the bible to justify their enter Jan Cowan, Edith Gorringe, Tanya Hopman, which family are we talking about? If it is prise culture. Even the Presbyterian clergy Carol Jillsun, Claire-Louise McCurdy, the narrow, insular unit that Thatcher, were shocked at a speech Thatcher made to Pat Rosier, Lisa Sabbage, Shirley Tamihana, along with all the born-agains, is extolling, them when she implied that “love thy Athina Tsoulis. the one commonly referred to as “the nu neighbour” did not necessarily mean that clear family,” then you can count me out. you had to love even neighbour! After all Editorial and policy decisions are made by the Yes, the nuclear family is in crisis and if you lived next to one of them, (the unem collective. Main areas of responsibility are: has been for a long time. All the crap ployed), well it would be difficult to love Bookshop, Lisa Sabbage: Design and contained within its four walls has spilled them now wouldn’t it! This government layout, Sharon Alston; Editorial, Pat out all over the place making a terrible mess (and any free enterprise culture) will do Rosier; Finances, subscriptions, Carol of our nice tidy values. Disbelief and denial anything to justify their selfish, uncaring Jillsun, Advertising and Promotion Tanya Hopman, Resource Collection, are the ploys that are used ad nauseum mentality. Do they really believe that if you Claire-Louise McCurdy. when we get a glimpse of the rotteness, are a pensioner or a single mother you can such as in the Cleveland Child Abuse scan become a millionaire withjustabit of hard dal in England. A couple of hundred chil work? Cover design: Sharon Alston dren were removed form their families Apart from economic considerations, Thanks to Judith Aitken. because of suspected sexual abuse. And Thatcher has another motive. Her govern guess who deny the loudest - you guessed ment’s idea of a good family is one which These women helped around Broadsheet this it, the male brotherhood have been howl does the job of the state, ie. repression. It is month: Barbara Mundt, Diane Bush, Carole ing. interesting that the right-wing (particularly Stewart, Pat MacKay, Michelle Quinn, Wendy. Uncomfortable as it is for some people, fascists), are in the forefront when it comes the realisation is slowly sinking in that yes, to eulogising the virtues of The Family. Printed by Rodney Waitemata Times, small children have been repeatedly bug After all the traditional nuclear family is Mill Lane, Warkworth, gered by male members of their family, and heavily associated with good old Law and Electronic pagination by Lazer Graphix yes, toddlers have been subjected to inde Order. Now we all want that don’t we! Photoprints by Monoset cencies as they lay in their cots, again by What we must never forget is that we Separations by Star Graphics. male members of their family. Feminists live in a woman-hating and child-hating have been alerting us to child abuse for a society. Why else in Britain are single Publication date: 1 October 1988 long time but denial and disbelief means a mothers housed in bed and breakfast hotel lot of abuse has gone undetected or that accommodation for months at a time, adequate guidelines for caring for abused ripped off by hotel managers, suffering BROADSHEET annual subscription $40 children have not been thought out. So we harassment and with children put at risk Overseas surface $56. Overseas airmail: have the situation of children suffering Europe $101.65. America and Asia, $85.40, from the transient male clientele? Why Australia and South Pacific, $66. multiple abuse, first in the home, then in the after years of feminist agitation are child institutions that are supposed to protect care facilities totally inadequate? Why has them, and again in foster homes. the National Health Service been allowed Articles and illustrations remain the property of Since the establishment of Childline in to decline so that underpaid nurses leave in the contributor. Permission must be sought from Britain - recently set up in Auckland - the droves and children cannot obtain lifesav Broadsheet and from the contributor before any item is reprinted. horrifying enormity of the statistics intrude ing operations? Why are the needs of thou daily into our cosy lives. One thousand sands of immigrant children being dis children speak to Childline counsellors counted in a restructuring of the education HERSPECTIVE is written each month by a daily, though its computer registers 3000 system? I could go on and on. member of the collective or an invited daily calls. Thirty percent of these calls are It seems that it will be the job of femi contributor. This month’s writer, Athina Tsoulis, is a collective member who is currently to do with sexual abuse and another 20 nists to go on calling for the liberation of overseas. percent with physical abuse. These statis children, to ensure that they do not remain tics represent those children who have isolated prisoners in their little nuclear heard of Childline, can get to a phone and homes and to continue demands for the LETTERS POLICY: The Broadsheet Collective manage to dial the service. This leaves recognition of alternative family group may not agree with or endorse views expressed in countless others suffering in silence. The letters. Nearly all the letters we are sent get pub ings. And, maybe, along the way we may lished. Those that are not published in full are nuclear family has been one of the main get society to contront the way women are edited in consultation with the writer. We do not harbingers of sexual abuse (we don’t encouraged to internalise their anger but publish personal attacks. Letters from men are mention wife battering, rape within mar men are encouraged to displace it upon published only when they correct matters of fact. riage etc etc). Despite continued reports those they deem “powerless”. ■ We particularly welcome letters about the content that the nuclear family is a dangerous insti of the magazine. Letters that are addressed to the collective or to the editor are assumed to be in tution, the site for so much violence, the tended for publication.